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Norway won the men’s cross-country skiing team relay off a dominant performance from Klæbo, Emil Iversen, Martin Løwstrøm Nyenget and Einar Hedegart.
France, led by two-time silver medalist Mathis Desloges, took second.
Italy finished third for its first cross-country skiing medal of its home games.
She and her husband, Charles Guthrie, met on a blind date at a basketball game, Savannah Guthrie has said on her show.
He needed just 24.22 seconds to complete the final lap, the fastest split time of the day, to leapfrog the competition.
McLeod finished 19th in his debut event, the 100m, on Wednesday.
Canada’s Laurent Dubreuil took home bronze with 34.26.
A quiet, mild-mannered Wisconsin native, Stolz became the first American to win gold in the 500m since Joey Cheek 20 years ago.
A night removed from a disastrous men’s figure skating outing for the United States in which heavy favorite Ilia Malinin finished eighth, in a Winter Olympics in which injury (Lindsey Vonn, Chloe Kim) and underperformance (Malinin and skier Mikaela Shiffrin) have taken center stage, Stolz gave Americans something to feel good about.
He edged Netherlands heatmate Jenning de Boo, whom Stolz also beat in the 1,000-meter race on Wednesday, by 0.11 seconds.
The end result was a career-best 291.58 points in the performance of a lifetime.
Shaidorov was the only one of the last six skaters who didn’t fall.
His score of 198.64 was more than 10 points higher than the next competitor, and he beat Malinin by more than 40.
The only other gold medal for Kazakhstan came in cross-country skiing in 1994.
Malinin will be 25 in four years when the Winter Olympics take over Nice, France.
Stephen Curry won another title.
He hasn’t done it in competition since the Grand Prix final in December.
Tom Brady went back to the Super Bowl and won.
Kagiyama still finished with silver.
He came almost out of nowhere to snag silver, behind gold medalist Nathan Chen, and signaled his promise as a future star.
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